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Ved.e  r. 


BULLETIN  OF 

CHURCH  STATISTICS 


FEDERAL  COUNCIL  OF  THE  CHURCHES 
^ OF  CHRIST  IN  AMERICA 

National  Office,  612  United  Charities  Building, 

105  East  22d  Street,  New  York 

Prof.  Shailer  Mathews,  President 
Rev.  Charles  S.  Macfarland,  General  Secretary 

• Rev.  Henry  K.  Carroll,  Associate  Secretary 
Washington  Office,  1114  Woodward  Building, 
Washington,  D.  C. 


STATISTICS  OF  THE  CHURCHES  OF  THE  UNITED 
STATES  FOR  1915 

Gathered  and  Arranged  by 
H.  K.  Carroll,  LL.D. 

These  statistics  cover  the  territory  of  the  United  States 
and  its  possessions  exclusively.  Ministers,  churches,  and 
communicants  of  various  denominations  in  foreign  countries 
are  deducted  from  the  denominational  totals. 

Where  official  denominational  returns  are  to  be  had  they 
are  used.  Where  such  returns  are  not  available,  the  best 
denominational  sources  of  information  are  sought  for  ap- 
proximate figures.  In  some  cases  the  census  returns  of  1906 
are  the  latest  and  only  ones  available.  It  is  chiefly  the  very 
small  bodies  which  report  no  statistics. 

Estimates,  generally  by  denominational  statisticians,  are 


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given  in  a few  cases  for  the  increase  of  the  year,  where 
denominational  reports  are  not  ready. 

The  order  of  arrangement  follows  the  alphabet,  and  classi- 
fication is  according  to  name  or  to  historical  relation.  The 
non-Christian  bodies  are  few  and  easily  separable  from 
the  Christian.  A great  body  of  Evangelical  Churches,  em- 
bracing seventeen  and  three-quarters  million  communicants, 
is  found  in  the  Table  of  the  constituent  bodies  of  the 
Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America 

It  is  necessary  to  give  again  a word  of  explanation  con- 
cerning the  figures  for  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  in  the 
column  of  communicants.  The  “Official  Catholic  Directory” 
reports  only  “population,”  which  includes  with  communi- 
cants the  unconfirmed  baptized;  that  is,  children  who  have 
not  been  admitted  to  their  first  communion.  The  rule 
adopted  in  the  census  of  1890,  and  followed  in  that  of  1906, 
deducts  15  per  cent  from  Catholic  population  and  sets  down 
the  remaining  85  per  cent  as  communicants.  Representatives 
of  that  Church  object  to  the  process,  but  as  the  rule  to 
report  only  members  or  communicants  is  applied  to  all  other 
denominations,  there  is  obviously  no  convenient  way  of 
making  an  exception  in  this  case.  It  should  be  said  that 
the  figures  for  “population”  in  “The  Official  Catholic  Direc- 
tory” are,  for  a large  number  of  dioceses  and  archdioceses, 
estimates,  given  in  round  numbers ; as,  for  example,  Balti- 
more, 261,000;  Boston,  900,000;  Cincinnati,  200,000. 

The  figures  for  Jewish  members  are  misleading.  The  de- 
nomination furnishes  no  statistics,  and  nothing  later  than 
the  figures  gathered  directly  by  circular  from  congregations 
by  the  Government  in  its  census  of  1906  is  obtainable.  The 
census  gives  an  even  smaller  number  of  members  than  this 
table,  counting  only  heads  of  families,  according  to  the 
Jewish  rule.  The  number  of  adults  connected  with  Jewish 
congregations  must  be  700,000  or  more. 

The  Christian  Catholic  Church  (Dowie)  has  for  years 
refused  to  give  statistical  information.  So  also  have  the 
Catholic  Apostolic  branches.  The  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
has  furnished  no  returns  for  members  since  1907. 

Changes  in  the  totals  for  1914  have  been  made.  In  not  a 
few  cases  the  statistics  officially  given  for  that  year  proved  to 
be  incorrect  and  were  revised  a year  later  by  the  same 


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denominational  authorities.  In  other  instances,  estimates 
given  in  advance  of  regular  returns  needed  to  be  slightly 
increased  or  decreased. 

THE  GAINS  AND  LOSSES  FOR  1915 

The  total  net  gain  of  communicants  for  1915  is  653,640, 
which  is  not  nearly  as  large  as  that  for  1914,  the  falling  off 
amounting  to  more  than  128,000.  Part  of  this  difference  is 
due  to  a decrease  among  the  Lutherans  of  nearly  11,000. 
The  explanation  of  this  considerable  decrease  where  sub- 
stantial gains  have  appeared  hitherto  is  not  at  hand,  but  it 
is  not  unlikely  due  in  part  to  faulty  statistics.  A decrease  in 
Lutheran  churches  of  nearly  a thousand  may  be  attributed 
largely  to  the  same  cause.  There  is  reason  to  believe  that 
the  Disciples  of  Christ  had  a good  year  in  1915,  but  un- 
fortunately they  were  not  able  to  report  any  figures  for  the 
past  year,  up  to  January  22,  and  those  of  1914  are  used. 
The  apparent  loss  of  over  11,000  members  and  150  churches 
by  the  Cumberland  Presbyterians  is  probably  to  be  accounted 
for  by  more  accurate  returns. 

The  fact  that  the  grand  total  shows  an  actual  loss,  instead 
of  the  usual  net  gain,  of  more  than  a hundred  and  fifty 
churches  is  worthy  of  careful  study.  One  large  body,  the 
Southern  Baptists,  reports  neither  gain  nor  loss  of  churches, 
and  yet  it  had  an  increase  of  communicants  of  over  116,000. 
Probably  the  closing  or  the  consolidation  of  rural  churches 
is  an  important  factor. 

The  increase  of  ministers,  though  less  than  half  that  of 
1914,  is  by  no  means  discouraging. 

The  advance  of  the  Churches  in  the  quarter  century  since 
1890  should  be  accepted,  it  would  appear,  as  distinctly  en- 
couraging. The  total  gains  are  as  follows:  69,571  ministers, 
60,037  churches,  and  18,762,411  communicants,  the  gain  in 
communicants  being  about  91  per  cent. 


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TABLE  I 

CONSTITUENT  BODIES  OF  THE  FEDERAL  COUNCIL,  JANUARY.  1916 


Denominations 

Ministers 

Churches 

Com- 

municants 

Baptist  Churches,  North 

8,290 

9,575 

1,252,633 

805 

1,110 

65,440 

National  Baptist  Convention 

13,806 

16,842 

2,018,868 

Seventh-Day  Baptist 

98 

76 

8,146 

Christian  (Connection) 

1,156 

1,335 

108,488 

Congregational 

5,923 

6,108 

771.362 

Disciples  of  Christ 

6,161 

8,494 

1,363,163 

Evangelical  Association 

1,036 

1,626 

118,620 

United  Evangelical 

528 

975 

86,635 

Friends 

1,315 

775 

98,356 

German  Evangelical  Synod 

1,085 

1,378 

264,097 

Lutheran,  General  Synod 

1,426 

1,830 

356,072 

172 

112 

12,797 

Methodist  Episcopal 

18,813 

28,428 

3,657,594 

7,203 

16,787 

2,072,035 

5,000 

6,000 

620,000 

3,552 

3,180 

568,608 

3,072 

3,196 

240,798 

1,410 

2,400 

201,110 

145 

126 

20,146 

Presbyterian  in  U.  S.  A 

Presbyterian  in  U.  S.,  South 

9,560 

1,850 

9,881 

3,438 

1,495,157 

332,339 

1,151 

1,136 

153.651 

81 

141 

14,877 

16 

17 

3,300 

Protestant  Episcopal,  Commission  on  Christian  Unity  and 

5,538 

8,061 

1,040,896 

750 

718 

126,847 

1,213 

1,759 

320,459 

Reformed  Episcopal 

83 

80 

10,800 

1,875 

3,507 

339,215 

103,113 

139,091 

17,742,509 

Totals  for  1914 

102,850 

138,834 

17,422,280 

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TABLE  II 


DENOMINATIONS 

Statistics  op  the 
Churches  in  1915 

Gains  op  the 
Churches  in  1915 

IN  THE  UNITED 

STATES  ONLY 

IN  THE  UNITED 
STATES  ONLY 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu* 

nicants 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Adventists: 

c 8 

r.  18 

c 481 

2.  Advent  ChrLstianfl 

u 6.87 

u 28,990 

3.  Seventh-Day 

552 

1,987 

73; 343 

24 

74 

5,040 

4.  Church  of  God 

34 

22 

800 

2 

2 

189 

5.  Life  and  Advent  Union 

c 12 

c 12 

c 509 

6.  Churches  of  God  in  Jesus  Christ 

61 

66 

2,224 

Total  Adventists 

1,233 

2,742 

106,347 

26 

76 

5,229 

Saptisis: 

1.  Baptist  Churches  (North) 

8,290 

9,575 

1,252,633 

el5 

e5 

el4,310 

2.  Baptist  Churches  (South) 

e 15,519 

e 24,338 

c 2,705,121 

47 

116,488 

n 8,806 

/ 16  842 

/2  018  868 

4.  Six  Principle 

9 

13 

731 

5.  Seventh-Day 

98 

76 

8,146 

d3 

40 

a 805 

a \ 1 1 0 

a 65  440 

7.  Freewill 

914 

834 

57  231 

556 

645 

33  600 

6 

9.  Separate 

c 100 

r 76 

c 5180 

10.  United 

c260 

c 196 

c 13,698 

c 99 

r.  93 

c 6 416 

c 1 500 

/•2  922 

r 102  311 

c 1,480 

c797 

e 35! 076 

14.  Old  Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit  Predesti- 

c 35 

c 55 

c 781 

15.  Church  of  God  and  Saints  of  Christ. . 

c 75 

c48 

c 1,823 

Total  Baptists 

43,546 

57,520 

6,307,055 

65 

5 

130,838 

Brethren  {Dunhards): 

1.  Conservative 

3,032 

965 

97,000 

23 

d25 

*216 

70 

e.  3 500 

d 2 

d 2 

3.  Progressive 

300 

210 

23,044 

100 

di 

2,344 

4.  Seventh-Day  (German) 

6 

15 

300 

25 

Total  Dunkard  Brethren 

3,554 

1,260 

123,844 

121 

d29 

2,369 

Brethren  (Plymouth): 

1.  Br^hren  I 

c 134 

c 2,933 

r 128 

4 752 

c81 

c 1,724 

c 60 

c 1,157 

Total  Plymouth  Brethren 

403 

10,566 

c.  Census  of  1906. 

d.  Decrease. 

«.  Estimates  of  increase  are  by  Statistician  of  Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

/.  Estimates  for  1914. 

M.  ReturnS'for  1911. 

a.  About  75  per  cent  of  these  churches  are  merged  with  churches  of  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention. 


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TABLE  II — Continued 


DENOMINATIONS 

Statistics  or  the 
Churches  in  1915 

Gains  or  the 
Churches  in  1915 

IN  THE  TTNITED 

STATES  ONLY 

IN  THE  tINITED 

STATES  ONLY 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Brethren  (River): 

178 

68 

3,731 

c24 

c9 

c423 

3.  United  Zion's  Children 

c22 

c28 

c749 

224 

105 

4,903 

Buddhists: 

c 62 

c 14 

c 12 

c 3,165 

15 

74 

3,165 

Catholic  Apostolic: 

cl4 

c 11 

c 2,907 

e 19 

c 13 

c2;020 

33 

24 

4,927 

Catholic  (Eastern  Orthodox): 

1.  Armenian  Apostolic 

20 

53 

65,000 

18 

5,000 

2.  Russian  Orthodox 

179 

227 

95,000 

3.  Greek  Orthodox 

80 

70 

175,000 

4.  Syrian  Orthodox 

30 

30 

45,000 

5.  Serbian  Orthodox 

21 

31 

64,000 

d3 

6.  Roumanian  Orthodox 

6 

5 

20,000 

7.  Bulgarian  Orthodox 

3 

3 

3,500 

... 

Total  Eastern  Catholics 

338 

419 

467,600 

dZ 

18 

5,000 

Catholic  (Western): 

1.  Roman  Catholic 

e 19,397 

e 16,237 

el4,049,063 

e403 

«276 

C186150 

2.  Polish  Catholic 

37 

45 

20,145 

2 

4 

1,645 

3.  American  Old  Catholic 

28 

20 

10,000 

Total  Western  Catholics 

19,462 

16,302 

14,079,208 

405 

280 

187,795 

Christadelphians 

70 

1,600 

1,066 

1,360 

113,887 

Chrutian  Catholic  (Dowie) 

'c35 

c 17 

c 5,865 

Christian  Union 

360 

320 

16,300 

6 

18 

1,083 

Church  of  Christ  Scientist . . 

2,828 

1,414 

m 85,096 

156 

78 

Churches  of  God  (Winebrennarian) 

'440 

'493 

6 28; 650 

20 

4 

3,224 

Churches  of  the  Living  God  (Colored): 

1.  Christian  Workers  for  Friendship 

c51 

c44 

c 2,676 

2.  Apostolic 

c30 

c 15 

c752 

3.  Church  of  Christ  in  God 

c20 

c9 

c858 

Total  Churches  of  the  Living  God. . . 

101 

68 

4,286 

c.  Census  of  1906.  d.  Decrease, 
e.  Estimates  of  mcrease  are  by  editor  of  CathoEc  Directory. 
m.  This  is  number  returned  for  1907.  No  figures  furnished  since. 
6.  Statistics  now  based  on  exact  returns,  not  estimates. 


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TABLE  II— Continued 


DENOMINATIONS 

Statistics  op  the 
Churches  in  1915 

Gains  op  the 
Churches  in  1915 

IN  THE  UNITED 

STATES  ONLY 

IN  THE  UNITED 
STATES  ONLY 

Mmisters 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

1 Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Churches  of  the  New  Jerusalem: 

109 

129 

8,500 

5 

2 

2.  General  Church 

38 

22 

1,213 

dl 

2 

42 

Total  New  Jerusalem  Churches . . . 

147 

151 

9,713 

4 

4 

42 

Church  Transcendent 

2 

3 

144 

2 

3 

144 

Communistic  Societies: 

cl5 

c516 

c 7 

c 1,756 

Total  Communistic  Societies 

22 

2,272 

Congregationalists 

e5.923 

e 6,108 

e 771,362 

el5 

e8,180 

Disciples  of  Christ: 

ff6,161 

ff8,494 

ffl,363,163 

c2;i00 

c2;649 

" c 159,658 

8,261 

11,143 

1,522,821 

Evangelical  Bodies: 

1.  Evangelical  Association 

1,036 

1,626 

118,620 

5 

d37 

3,377 

2.  Unit^  Evangelical  Church 

528 

975 

86,635 

dlO 

40 

7,343 

Total  Evangelical  Bodies 

1,564 

2,601 

205,255 

dS 

3 

10,720 

Faith  Associations: 

c538 

c30 

c 11 

c 703 

3.  Metropolitan  Church  Association 

c29 

c 6 

c 466 

r36 

c 10 

c 293 

5.  Missionary  Church  Association 

c35 

c32 

c 1,256 

c 27 

c 938 

e 19 

c42 

c 4,558 

c26 

c9 

c395 

9.  Voluntary  Missionary  Soc’y  (Colored) 

cll 

c3 

c425 

241 

146 

9,572 

c20 

c 15 

c 1,835 

Friends: 

/ 1,315 

f77b 

/ 98,356 

2.  “Hicksite” 

99 

' 167 

' 18; 305 

d44 

d 1,292 

3.  "Wilburite” 

c47 

c48 

c3,88C 

c 1C 

c8 

c 171 

Total  Friends 

1,471 

998 

120,712 

d44 

d 1,292 

c.  Census  of  1906. 

d.  Decrease. 

e.  Estimates:  returns  for  1915  not  yet  ready. 

/.  Returns  for  1914. 

g.  Returns  for  1914.  Those  for  1915  not  ready  Jan.  22,  1915. 


TABLtl  ii — Continued 


DENOMINATIONS 

Statistics  of  the 
Churches  in  1915 

Gains  op  the 
Churches  in  1915 

IN  THE  UNITED 

STATES  ONLY 

IN  THE  UNITED 
STATES  ONLY 

E 

1 

.a 

S 

Churches 

h 

o w 

o a 

Ministers 

1 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

c3 

c3 

c 376 

c 59 

c 66 

c 34,704 

‘German  Evangelical  Synod 

1,085 

1,378 

264; 097 

27 

i3 

....  I 

c 1,084 

c 1,769 

143,000 

Latter-Day  Saints: 

1.  Utah  Branch 

2,435 

905 

330,000 

285 

30 

20,000 

2.  Reorganized  Branch 

1,700 

775 

67,000 

50 

25 

2,000 

Total  Lattef-Day  Saints 

4,l35 

1,680 

397,000 

335 

55 

22,000 

Lutherans: 

1.  General  Synbd 

1,426 

1,830 

356,072 

31 

dl7 

15,631 

2.  United  Synod,  South 

271 

490 

53,705 

dS 

2 

1,51? 

3.  General  Council 

1,640 

2,419 

470,771 

24 

10 

d 13,494 

4.  Synodical  Conference 

3,132 

3,796 

821,386 

86 

dl016 

d29,389 

5.  United  Norwegian 

674 

1,630 

171,657 

69 

21 

3,294 

(Independent  Synads): 

6.  Ohio 

675 

1,085 

142,355 

22 

8 

5,432 

7.  Buffalo 

35 

44 

5,530 

2 

d4 

172 

354 

39,748 

11 

9.  Eielsen’s i 

4 

26 

2,500 

d 1 

d 1 

1,400 

10.  Iowa 

585 

1,035 

122,428 

17 

25 

5,516 

ll.  Norwegian 

432 

1,050 

98,188 

d3 

2,183 

12.  Danish  in  America 

71 

115 

13,346 

3 

7 

d 3,141 

13.  Icelandic 

15 

50 

3,939 

1 

7 

134 

23 

26 

19,000 

d 6 

15.  Suomai  (Finnish) 

34 

138 

13; 919 

4 

2 

d 1,081 

70 

309 

22,000 

22 

72 

8^000 

176 

380 

26,050 

d 14 

19.  Danish  United 

131 

202 

14,090 

dl 

10 

713 

20.  Church  of  the  Lutheran  Brethren 

13 

18 

2,000 

Independent  Congregations 

87 

200 

27,500 

di 

d5 

500 

Total  Lutherans 

9,688 

15,269 

2,434,184 

238 

d951 

d 10,786 

Scandinavian  Evangelical  Bodies':  f 

1.  Swedish  Evangelical  Miss.  Covenant. 

402 

560 

50,000 

2.  Swedish  Evangelical  Free  Mission . . . 

152 

154 

18,500 

3.  Norwegian  Evangelical  Free 

75 

153 

4,400 

Total  Swedish  Evangelical 

629 

857 

72,000 

c.  Census  of  l90&. 

d.  Decrease. 

e.  Estimates;  returns  fot  i915  not  yet  ready. 
/.  No  returns  since  1913. 


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TABLE  II — ^Continued 


Statistics  op  tee  Gains  op  the 

Churches  in  1915  Churches  in  1915 


IN  THE  united 


in  the  UNITED 


DENOMINATIONS 


Mennonites: 

1.  Mennonite 

2.  Bruederhoef 

3.  Amish 

4.  Amish  (Old  Order) 

5.  Amish  (Conservative) 

6.  Reformed 

7.  General  Conference 

8.  Church  of  God  in  Christ 

9.  Old  Order  (Wisler) 

10.  Bundes  Conference 

11.  Defenceless 

12.  Mennonite  Brethren  in  Christ 

Miscellaneous 

Total  Mennonites 

Methodists: 

1.  Methodist  Episcopal 

2.  Union  American  Methodist  Episcopal. 

3.  African  Methodist  Episcopal 

4.  African  Union  Methodist  Protestant.. 

5.  African  Methodist  Episcopal  Zion . . . 

6.  Methodist  Protestant 

7.  Wesleyan  Methodist 

8.  Methodist  Episcopal,  South 

9.  Congregational  Methodist. 

10.  New  Congregational  Methodist 

11.  Zion  Union  Apostolic 

12.  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal 

13.  Primitive 

14.  Free  Methodist 

15.  Reformed  Methodist  Union  Episcopal 

16.  Independent  Methodist 

Total  Methodists 

Moravian  Bodies: 

1.  Moravians 

2.  Union  Bohemians  and  Moravians. . . . 

Total  Moravians 

Nonsectarian  Bible  faith  Churches 

Pentecostal  Bodies: 

1.  Pentecostal  Church  of  the  Nazarene. . 

2.  Other  Pentecostal  Associations 

Total  Pentecostal  Bodies 


STATES  ONLY 

STATES  ONLY 

-S 

1 ■§ 

2 

O 

i OT 

■g 

"d 

1 ca 

o 

o g 

i 

O 

&B 

560 

257 

14,148 

32 

20 

1,033 

128 

64 

9,888 

(/48 

d27 

d 1,226 

161 

55 

6,340 

87 

30 

4,405 

61 

22 

1,200 

27 

8 

307 

32 

14 

1,029 

172 

112 

12,797 

11 

9 

300 

21 

20 

1,688 

i 

8 

417 

46 

27 

2,425 

12 

15 

824 

di 

5 

91 

149 

97 

5,013 

91 

48 

4,646 

1,476 

760 

61,331 

63 

34 

3,994 

18,813 

28,428 

3,657,594 

d68 

183 

54,329 

170 

225 

20,000 

13 

1,000 

5,000 

6,000 

620,000 

200 

125 

4,000 

3,552 

3,180 

568,608 

1,410 

2,400 

201,110 

39 

52 

20,728 

840 

675 

20,500 

1,000 

7,203 

16,787 

2,072,035 

ioi 

96 

66,328 

337 

333 

15,529 

c59 

c35 

c 1,782 

c33 

c 45 

c 3,059 

3,072 

3,196 

240,798 

74 

94 

8,400 

4 

2 

190 

1,293 

1,171 

35,032 

94 

dS 

1,204 

*30 

•32 

* 2,500 

d 10 

d2i 

d700 

2 

2 

1,161 

.42,088 

62,728 

7,472,108 

163 

314 

144,079 

145 

126 

20,146 

2 

4 

531 

4 

21 

1,000 

149 

147 

21,146 

2 

4 

531 

c50 

c204 

c 6,396 

775 

842 

32,139 

88 

134 

4,613 

c 115 

36 

1,270 

890 

878 

33,409 

88 

134 

4,613 

c.  Census  of  1906. 

d.  Decrease. 

e.  Estimates;  returns  for  1915  not  yet  ready. 
* Decrease  due  to  division  in  1914. 


9 


TABLE  II — Continued 


DENOMINATIONS 

Statisticb  or  the 
Chubches  in  1915 

Gains  or  the 
Chubches  in  1915 

IN  THE  UNITED 

STATES  ONLY 

IN  THE  UNITED 

STATES  ONLY 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Preibyterians: 

1.  Northern 

9.560 

9,881 

1,495,157 

147 

dl38 

52,659 

2.  Cumberland 

728 

1,439 

62,294 

d80 

dl50 

d 11,264 

c375 

c 196 

c 18,066 

4.  Welsh  Calvinistic 

81 

141 

14; 877 

d 16 

d 15 

503 

5.  United 

1,151 

1,136 

153,651 

d 16 

d 10 

5,431 

6.  Southern 

1,850 

3,438 

332,339 

31 

8 

21,737 

7.  Associate 

9 

14 

500 

dl 

d5 

d2 

113 

14,821 

9.  Reformed  (Synod) 

128 

111 

8;  634 

4 

92 

16 

17 

3,300 

1 

40 

12.  Reformed  in  the  United  States  and 

Canada 

1 

1 

360 

d8 

Total  Presbyterians 

14,012 

16,530 

2,104,039 

69 

d290 

69,148 

Protestant  Episcopal: 

1.  Protestant  Episcopal 

5,538 

8,061 

1,040,896 

d& 

139 

25,648 

2.  Reformed  Episcopal 

83 

80 

10,800 

Total  Protestant  Episcopal 

5,621 

8,141 

1,051,696 

d& 

139 

25,648 

Reformed: 

1.  Reformed  (Dutch) 

750 

718 

126,847 

d25 

11 

3,704 

2.  Reformed  (German) 

1,213 

1,759 

320,459 

di 

dll 

7,799 

3.  Christian  Reformed 

161 

231 

36,296 

7 

8 

1,648 

4.  Hungarian  Reformed 

31 

74 

19,000 

4 

10,500 

Total  Reformed 

2,155 

2,782 

502,602 

d22 

12 

23,651 

7 

6 

3,250 

Salvation  Army 

2,961 

941 

27,664 

53 

37 

207 

Schwenkfelders 

6 

6 

1,043 

1 

4 

c 15 

c 17 

c 1,262 

7 

6 

2,450 

2,100 

200,000 

154 

4,714 

512 

469 

70,542 

d 12 

United  Brethren: 

1.  United  Brethren 

1,875 

3,507 

339,215 

d78 

d76 

17,171 

2.  United  Brethren  (Old  Constitution) . . 

310 

515 

21,172 

Total  United  Brethren 

2,185 

4,022 

360,387 

d78 

d76 

17,171 

656 

763 

55,000 

Independent  Congregations 

267 

879 

48,673 

Grand  Total  in  1915 

180,604 

225,333 

39,380,670 

1,716 

dl60 

6,53,592 

Grand  Total  in  1914 

178,888 

225,492 

38,727,078 

3,810 

1,321 

782,007 

c.  Census  of  1906. 

d.  Decrease. 

c.  Estimates:  returns  for  1915  not  yet  ready. 


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TABLE  II — Continued 


DENOMINATIONS 

Summary  for  1915 

Net  Gains  for 
1915 

1 Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Ministers 

Churches 

Commu- 

nicants 

Adventists  (6  bodies) 

1,233 

2,742 

106,347 

26 

76 

5,229 

-Baptists  (15  bodies) 

43,546 

57,520 

6,307,055 

65 

5 

130,838 

Brethren  (Dunkards)  (4  bodies) 

3,554 

1,260 

123,844 

121 

<129 

2,369 

403 

10,566 

224 

105 

4^903 

15 

74 

3,165 

33 

24 

4!  927 

■Catholic  (Eastern  Orthodox)  (7  bodies) .... 

338 

419 

467,500 

d3 

18 

5,000 

Catholic  (Western)  (3  bodies) 

19,462 

15,302 

14,079,208 

405 

280 

187,795 

70 

1,500 

88 

1,066 

1,360 

113,887 

35 

17 

5,865 

Christian  Union 

360 

320 

16,300 

6 

18 

1,083 

2,828 

1,414 

85,096 

156 

78 

Churches  of  God  (Winebrennarian) 

440 

493 

28; 650 

20 

4 

3,224 

Churches  of  the  Living  God  (Colored) 

101 

68 

4,286 

Churches  of  the  New  Jerusalem  (2  bodies). . 

147 

151 

9,713 

4 

4 

42 

Church  Transcendent 

2 

3 

144 

2 

3 

144 

22 

2,272 

Congregationalists 

5,923 

6,108 

771,362 

15 

8,180 

8,261 

11,143 

1,522,821 

Evangelical  (2  bodies) 

1,504 

2,601 

'205; 255 

d 5 

3 

10,720 

241 

146 

9,572 

20 

15 

1,835 

Friends  (4  bodies) 

1,471 

998 

120,712 

<i44 

d 1,292 

3 

3 

376 

59 

66 

34,704 

German  Evangelical  Synod 

1,085 

1,378 

264,097 

27 

13 

1,084 

1,769 

143,000 

Latter-Day  Saints  (2  bodies) 

4,135 

1,680 

397,000 

335 

55 

22,000 

Lutherans  (21  bodies) 

9,688 

15,269 

2,434,184 

238 

d951 

d 10,786 

629 

857 

72,900 

Mennonites  (12  bodies) 

1,476 

760 

6i;331 

63 

24 

3,994 

Methodists  (16  bodies) 

42,088 

62,728 

7,472,108 

163 

314 

144,079 

Moravians  (2  bodies) 

149 

147 

21,146 

2 

4 

531 

50 

204 

6,396 

Pentecostal  (2  bodies) 

890 

878 

33,409 

88 

134 

4,613 

Presbyterians  (12  bodies) 

14,012 

16,530 

2,104,039 

69 

<i290 

69,148 

Protestant  Episcopal  (2  bodies) 

5,621 

8,141 

1,051,696 

d8 

139 

25,648 

Reformed  (4  bodies) 

2,155 

2,782 

502,602 

d22 

12 

23,651 

7 

6 

3,250 

Salvation  Army 

2,961 

941 

27,664 

53 

37 

207 

Schwenkfelders 

6 

6 

1,043 

1 

4 

15 

17 

1,262 

7 

6 

2!  450 

2,100 

200,000 

154 

4,714 

512 

469 

70,542 

d 12 

United  Brethren  (2  bodies) 

2,185 

4,022 

360;387 

d78 

<176 

17,171 

656 

763 

55,000 

Independent  Congregations 

267 

879 

48,673 

Grand  Total  in  1915 

180,604 

225,333 

39,380,670 

1,716 

<il60 

653,592 

Grand  Total  in  1914 

178,888 

225,493 

38,727,078 

3,810 

1,321 

782,007 

II 


TABLE  III 


NET  GAINS  IN  COMMUNICANTS  OF  RELIGIOUS  BODIES  IN  THE  TWENTY- 
FIVE  YEARS,  1890-1915 


Religious  Bodies  op  Upward  op 
300,000  Communicants 

Returns 
for  1915 

Returns 
for  1890 

Net  Gains 
in  25  Years 

Percentage- 
of  Gain 

Roman  Catholic 

14,049,063 

6,231,417 

7,S17,646 

125-t- 

Methodist  Episcopal 

3,657,594 

2,240,354 

1,417,240 

63-i- 

Southern  Baptist 

2,705,121 

1,280,066 

1,425,055 

lll-H 

Methodist  Episcopal,  South 

2,072,035 

1,209,976 

862,059 

71-t- 

Baptist  (Colored) 

2,018,868 

1,348,989 

669,879 

50-1- 

Presbyterian,  Northern 

1,495,157 

788,224 

706,933 

90- 

Disciples  of  Christ 

1,363,163 

641,051 

722,112 

113- 

Baptist,  North 

1,252,633 

800,450 

452,183 

56-t- 

Protestant  Episcopal 

1,040,896 

532,054 

508,842 

96- 

Lutheran  Synodical  Conference 

821,386 

357,153 

464,233 

130- 

Congregationalist 

771,362 

512,771 

258,591 

50-1- 

African  Methodist  Episcopal 

620,000 

452,725 

167,275 

37- 

African  Methodist  Episcopal  Zion 

568,608 

349,788 

218,820 

63- 

Lutheran  General  Council 

470,771 

324,846 

145,925 

45- 

Lutheran  General  Synod 

356,072 

164,640 

191,432 

116- 

United  Brethren 

339,215 

202,474 

136,741 

68- 

Presbyterian  (South) 

332,339 

179,721 

152,618 

118- 

Latter-Day  Saints,  Utah 

330,000 

144,352 

185,648 

77-t- 

Reformed  (German) 

320,459 

204,018 

116,441 

57-t- 

Totals 

34,584,742 

17,965,069 

16,619,673 

93— 

All  other  bodies 

4,795,976 

2,653,238 

2,142,738 

71-1- 

Grand  total 

39,380,718 

20,618,307 

18,762,411 

91-1- 

TABLE  IV 

NET  GAINS  IN  COMMUNICANTS  OF  GROUPS  OF  RELIGIOUS  BODIES  IN 
TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS 


Denominational  Groups  or  Families 


Catholics  (3  bodies) 

Methodists  (16  bodies) 

Baptists  (15  bodies) 

Lutherans  (20  bodies) 

Presbyterians  (12  bodies) 

Disciples  of  Christ  (2  bodies) . . . 
Episcopal,  Protestant  (2  bodies) 

Reformed  (4  bodies) 

Eastern  Orthodox  (7  bodies) . . . 
Latter-Day  Saints  (2  bodies) . . , 
United  Brethren  (2  bodies) .... 

Evangelical  (2  bodies) 

Friends  (4  bodies) 

Brethren,  Dunkards  (4  bodies) . 
Adventists  (6  bodies) 

Totals 


Returns 
in  1915 


14,079,208 

7,472,108 

6,307,055 

2,434,184 

2,104,039 

1,522,821 

1,051,696 

502,602 

467,500 

397,000 

360,387 

205,255 

120,712 

123,844 

106,347 


37,254,758 


Returns 
in  1890 


6,240,602 

4,589,284 

3,717,969 

1,231,072 

1,278,332 

641,051 

540,509 

309,458 

13,939 

166,125 

225,281 

133,313 

107,208 

73,795 

60,491 


19,328,429 


Net  Gains 
in  25  Years 


7,838,606 

2,882,824 

2,589,086 

1,203,112 

825,707 

881,770 

511,187 

193,144 

453,561 

230,875 

135,106 

71,942 

13,504 

50,049 

45,856 


17,926,329 


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